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Facebook’s New Subscribe Option Guards You From Annoying Updates

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Facebook feels heat from its arch rivals Twitter and Google Plus in social media networking market. Competition is so high that in last two days, Facebook has introduced two new applications to stay most attractive social media platform among online users. It was just yesterday when company unveiled “Smart friend list” feature and again today it’s “Subscriber button” which shows level of competition faces from its rivals.

Facebook has added a new subscribe button, which is quite similar to Twitter’s original “Suggested User” list that provides new users with recommendations of people to follow limited list.

Facebook new “Subscribe” button shows up under “Most Recent”. User can click on the button if they want to view status update of the person. With this new subscribe button user can have extensive control over your News Feed page. The subscribe button provides  flexibility to all Facebook users to set the rights on all their friends’ update. Now, users can have default filtration over the news feeds and updates that come from their friends.

In an announcement, company posted features of subscribe button:

  • Choose what you see from people in news feed.
  • Hear from people, even if you’re not friends.
  • Let people hear from you, even if you’re not friends.

Facebook subscribe button has one good point, it’s not switched on for everyone and hence user can choose to be apart from it. Users who are already friends with someone, will see a Subscribe button with a drop down and they will receive all, most, or important updates by that person.

With the addition of Subscribe button, users will no longer have to use multiple services for different relationship based on real-life friendship or interest. Also, users will no longer suffer from annoying stories of scores or item earned on social game by their little brothers.

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Facebook Unveils New Smart Friend List Feature

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It seems that Facebook has started feeling the heat from its new arch rival Google plus. Today, Facebook has announced a new feature called “smart friend list” which is, interestingly, quite similar to Google plus’s “circle”. This feature is an extension of the existing Facebook’s “Friend List”. However, this time it has bypassed the 20 users’ restriction and provides a full control over the various type of listing.

Using Smart Friend List, users can classify their friends into multiple groups identical to circle. Earlier users had to create groups manually, which used to take lots of time and keep them away from the best use of this feature.

“Lists have existed for several years, but you’ve told us how time-consuming it is to organize lists for different parts of your life and keep them up to date” says Blake Ross – Director of Product.

Company is on its way to roll out four new improvements under lists:

  • Smart lists – It automatically creates list which comprises people, according to their work, family, school etc. One can justify this with an example of Google Plus’s circle. Friends will automatically get added in the list and user can classify them according to the groups.
  • Personalized lists – It can be created by the users based on their relationship with Facebook friends.
  • Easier listing – User can add their Facebook connection to a particular list.
  • Restricted lists– It comprises of list of users who can’t access to your information on Facebook.

Earlier users were restrictive towards using the friend list due to applied restrictions. Now with the launch of new smart friend list, users are safer in sharing their information, photos and updates on Facebook.

These changes will help user to feel more comfortable with privacy and an effective communication among with sets of friends over Facebook.

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MBA Admission Offices Screen Candidates Through Facebook

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Sunshine
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Students seeking admission for MBA must be alerted as one in four MBA admission offices are visiting their social media accounts to know more about them. It has also been concluded that such admission offices discovered several things which negatively impacted the student candidacy.

The research, from Kaplan Test Prep, is based upon the latest annual survey of 265 graduate business school admissions offices.

While this study focuses less on social media, some questions still occur, like for instance:

  • 27 percent of the admission offices, Googled applicants profile to know more about him/her.
  • 22 percent of them have visited Facebook page or other social media profiles of their applicants for the same reason.

May be social media content imposes negative impact on the candidate, but it’s not enough for one to decide whether a candidate suits the candidacy or not. There are several points which kill the dream of the aspirants, according to Kaplan;

  • Low admission score,58 percent;
  • Low undergraduate grade point average , 24 percent; and
  • Lack of relevant work experience, 12 percent.

Social media ought to become, as a rehearsal for the applicants searching for job and admission. It’s the fact that Graduate business schools are more conservatives than any other academic admission offices when it comes to social media.

As many of the users are not using privacy settings in Facebook, it may influence their academic as well as career pursuits. Since many of the company and admission offices visits your pages at social media to know more about you. So be alert and maintain privacy of your post, photos and other potentially sensitive material on social media.

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Windows 8 Ready For Big Debut: Is Microsoft Over Accelerating On OS ?

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Dazeinfo
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It’s not been much time when world first witnessed the glimpse of Windows 8 in June this year – specifically offered by Microsoft. Now, Microsoft is gearing up to peel off the cover in full length from the next version of its flagship operating system – Windows 8. Come next week, at Microsoft’s developers Build conference at Anaheim, Calif and you will witness the complete naked version of Windows 8.

This time Microsoft is in no mood for any surprise. Apparently, it’s gradually uncovering the next OS baby only to raise the excitement – and probably to create positive market scenario – among all its competitors.

In last June when company first provided a very brief demo of Windows 8, expectation started taking place for the launch and blogging sphere started addressing the topic in full swing. Undoubtedly, there are the couple of technical aspects which makes Windows 8 different from its earlier OS family.

This time Microsoft has decided to go along with as many chipset manufacturers instead of gelling well with only one. Company has already announced the ARM processor support from Texas instrument, Qualcomm and NVidia for Windows 8 in addition of traditional x86 support from Intel. It has also been said that the boot time has been improved drastically compare to older version of Windows OS.

However, company also went through a surprise patch when first built version was leaked and went over EBay for auction.

By all the means, the debate is also been triggered whether Microsoft is showing its desperation in the presence of constant growing competition –like never before – from Google’s Chrome OS, Mac OS rebirth or Tablet’s Android and iOS platform.

Many analysts doesn’t feel any strong need or requirement current for Microsoft to launch for any new Operation System atleast for next 2 years. Especially more than 400 million licenses of Windows 7 have been sold in no time and more than 65% of users are expecting to migrate to Windows in next 7 months, it doesn’t make any sense for the company to become bullish on any new version of OS.

The majority of Windows OS users have still not been able to adopt the new algorithm procedures and they need time to settle down with completely revamped Windows 7. Many applications on Windows XP doesn’t work with Windows 7, the new UI is little hard to understand unlike XP and Performance still need an open certification from end users.

So, what’s making Microsoft to set up such a huge investment boiler behind the development and launch of Windows 8? Surely, this is an effort by company to take a big lap from its competitors by overheating the technology level and securing their user base.

Whatever it may be, one thing is quite clear; Microsoft is in no mood to slow down and with the rumors of Office 2012 tomorrow is not going to be dead for sure.

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Is Social Media Marketing A Valuable ROI Tool For Business? [INFOGRAPHIC]

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Aarzu Khan
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Social Media marketing may be just a new seed but its the production of crop from this is instant and effective. Corporate world – which is still hanging around with traditional and, so called, proven methodology of marketing – is still distancing itself from social media marketing stream.

Just think over these figures: More than One Billion Unique Users, More than 10 Billion updates, Millions of Hours every month and an average 27 hours over social media every day by each user; what else is required to prove the merit of social media marketing ! It is difficult to showcase astounding impact of social media and social media marketing in one go, therefore, this video will help you to understand the impact of social media over industry, people and business in full length.

However, there is still reluctance among corporate world to accept the dominance of social media. Surprisingly, there are more than 69% business houses in the world who have isolated themselves from any social media marketing initiatives.

But, the below infographic may help them to reevaluate their stand towards social media marketing as it showcases strong and promising Return on Investment (ROI) structure, facts and figures. The infographic, from MDGAdvertising, evaluates how exactly companies are slowly turning towards social media to fulfill the need from every aspect of business and the results have encouraged.

There were couple of other similar infographic published by us in past but the below one is the most recent, updated and focus on corporate world.

social media marketing

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Indian Online Users Are More Fascinated Towards Social Media Than Email [STUDY]

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Dazeinfo
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Social media is witnessing astounding growth rate of almost 100 percent in India and it’s expected to reach 45 million users by 2012. Social media has become part of everyday life for majority of online Indians. There are around 30 million online consumers in India, who are the members of different social networking sites. Around two third of them spend more time on social networking sites daily. Interestingly, Indians spend more time on social networking sites than checking their e-mails.

According to the study, an equal number of people spend up to an hour on social network and e-mail. While just 8% of them spend between an hour and three hours on personal mail, around 20% spend the same time on social networking sites.

The role of social media in creating a deeper engagement is a boon to marketing. Every third online Indian user accesses non-traditional video outlets on the range of activities. Online Indians are using social media for many activities like getting the information about entertainment, job search, purchasing gadgets and searching partners.

Corporate Branding Boost Social Media Engagement

Based upon the current growth in the social media, it is expected that in the coming six months 45,000 persons intends to join social networking sites each day.

Every fourth online Indian is aware of the brands on the social media. Of those who are on the social sites claims that they follows brands on these platforms.

Brand Are Showing Confidence in Social Media

Nearly 40 million Indians are using online review for getting the information regarding their purchase decision. Out of which 67% of them uses online reviews to help them make purchases. Around 60% Indians who used social media are open to being approached by brands, which indicates that social media has the ability to change the dynamic between brands and consumers.

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The Evolution of Social Media in 2011 [INFOGRAPHIC]

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Aarzu Khan
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The world of social media and networking has been an intense part for most of the people who are connected with computers by any form. No matter what you do the impact of online social life is s enormous to link it some time. Consequently, growth of social media in last few years has astounded and still moving ahead for new streams with every passing day.

Though, there are many previous infographic and videos on Dazeinfo which showcases the evolution of social media, this latest infographic from SEJSearchengineJournal projects the growth in last one year with latest facts and figures.

I must admit that many of you may find it contradictory with our own earlier infographics as few numbers in below infographic do not speak out the same. However, the overall projection is quite informative and appreciate able.

Major highlights of this infographic:

  • Facebook would be the third biggest virtual country after China and India.
  • Stumbleupon gets more daily traffic than Twitter.
  • Facebook’s crazy 63.46% market share
  • 1 in 4 Americans watch a YouTube video every single day
  • 53% of employees research potential job candidates on social networks
  • Facebook has 310m unique visitors every day
  • 49% of Twitter users rarely login

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16 Percent of U.S. Mobile Users Are Pledged to Android; 40 Percent Own Smartphones

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The domination of Android in global Smartphone industry is no news now. However, it’s interesting to analyses the position of Android in U.S. market where people are more fascinated towards the Apple brand and have great respect for iPhone. But, with the time, the trend seems to be changing as Android has surpassed Apple’s iPhone market share in U.S. in almost all forms of smartphone industry of U.S.

According to a latest research from Neilson, Apple’s iPhone no more enjoying the lead position in Smartphone market share in U.S. Google’s Android has either taken it head-to-head in various segments or frog lapped it.

Following the July 2011 data, 40 percent of mobile users in U.S. own Smartphone. Interestingly, 40 percent of smartphone users have committed towards Android against 28% for Apple’s iPhone users.

The trend is not going to die anytime soon as the research also shows that people in U.S. are slowly leaning more towards Android than iPhone. Among those who are expecting a new smartphone in the next year, approximately one-third desire to join the iPhone camp and similar number of people are promising for Android.

However, most number of “innovators” or rather known as earliest of early adopters – who are usually the first to embrace new technologies – are responding with the word “Android”.

With all such numbers, propositions, there are also a significant number of late adopters who are still hanging around with traditional non-smartphone handsets. Such users are the ones who are still not sure about their next move for smartphone era and probably these are the prime target for Google and Apple to create influence and entice people.

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ScribeAir – Transform Your Smartphone into An Intelligent Visual Communicator

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Dazeinfo
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At the time when Smartphone is flourishing the mobile market with tens of variants and almost every third user is leaning towards it, there is absolutely no doubt about the promising future of smartphone application market. Companies and independent developers are trying their best to grab the biggest pie of the market and constantly making an effort to come-up with one or other astounding app either for business or personal users who are fascinated towards such applications.

Following the trend, this new cool app –launched recently – allows you to have visual communication in form of “doodles” with your friends or group just by twisting your finger on you smartphone screen and converting it in a portrait. Interestingly, it all happens in real-time.

ScribeAir – as the application has been named – is an intelligent form of communicator app that can be used to share the real-time hand-drawn visual on your smartphone with the screen of your friends’ smartphones. With the help of ScribeAir, users can virtually transform their smartphone in a digital white board to have group presentation, real-time gaming with friends or allows users to draw the hand-art and share with their friends in real-time or through internet.

The application has omitted the little complicated process of ‘clicking and sharing’ with friends through itchy network or through battery draining Wi-Fi. This could also be a useful tool in personal relationship when you want to give a special feel to your loved one effectively but securely.

However, the current version of ScribeAir is limited only with Android users and communicates via Bluetooth. However, the road map of the application also includes group communication, cross-platform communication, network independency and enhancement of current drawing platter with feature reach editing options like color picker, saver, Shapes brushes etc.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAGwX4gCxGE

“We are expecting to roll-out with the next version of ScribeAir with many more features by end of this month. Users can understand the significance of the app with their day-to-day life much more effectively once the upcoming version will be available in the Android Marketplace” says Harsha Mv, CEO of ScribeAir.

It would be fun to have this application if you have an Android phone just to enjoy the different way of real-time communication with your other Android friends.

You can download this app with the help of below QR Code

Alternatively, you can visit this link of Android Marketplace to download ScribeAir

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Samsung Wave 3 : A Powerful Bada 2 Entry in the Wave line-up.

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Lov Mishra
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Samsung recently revealed Wave 3 as a powerful Bada 2 smartphone for the Wave line-up. Wave 3 is powered with a 1.4 GHz processor and has a brilliant 4” Super AMOLED display supporting the resolution of 480×800. The combination of blazing fast processor and such vivid display gives unique mobile interface accompanied with amazing content viewing experience. The smartphone is running on Bada 2.0 which combines power and portability for a whole new experience of advanced mobile interface. BADA 2.0 supports multi-tasking, Wi-Fi Direct, Near Field Communication (NFC) and voice recognition. It will give users an enhanced web experience because OS supports HTML 5 and latest Flash features. Even Developers will be benefited because of its support for WAC 2.0 and Ads API.

Samsung Wave 3 is bundled with rear 5  MP camera and a front VGA camera ,the smartphone is capable of HD video recording at the resolution of 720p @30 FPS. Wave 3 comes with ChatON, Samsung’s mobile communication service which is compatible with almost all major mobile devices. ChatON links you and your friends instantly and supports micro-communities that can be setup by group chats and all. HSPA connectivity and 9.9 mm brushed metal case makes it more desirable. The specifications of Samsung Wave 3 as stated by Samsung are given below.
Samsung Wave 3  Product Specifications

Network

HSPA 14.4 / 5.76 Mbps  900/2100 MHz
EDGE/GPRS  850/900/1800/1900 MHz

Processor

1.4GHz Processor

Display

4″ WVGA (480×800) Super AMOLED

OS

 bada 2.0

Camera

 Main(Rear) : 5 MP AF with LED Flash
Sub(Front) : VGA

Video

MPEG4/H.263/H.264/DivX
Playback/Recording : HD(720p)@30fps

Audio

MP3/AAC/AAC＋/eAAC＋/WMA/AMR/ MID/WAV
3.5mm Ear Jack, Stereo FM Radio with RDS
Value-added Features

Samsung Apps

Samsung Kies 2.0 / Samsung Kies air

Samsung TouchWiz for bada

Samsung ChatON mobile communication service

Social Hub
– Integrated Messaging(Email, IM, SNS), Contacts/ Calendar Sync
– Basic: POP3/IMAP Email & IM

Music Hub

Polaris Office

Caster
A-GPS/Glonass

Connectivity

Bluetooth® technology v 3.0
USB 2.0
Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n

Sensor

Accelerometer, Digital compass, Proximity

Memory

4GB ＋ microSD (up to 32GB)

Size

125.9 × 64.2 × 9.9 mm, 122g

Battery

(Standard) Li-on, 1,500mAh

Talk Time : Up to 14.2 hours (2G) , Up to 8.8 hours (3G)
Standby Time : Up to 535 hours (2G) ,Up to 517 hours (3G)
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Angry Birds Latest Season Is Out : Enjoy The Chinese Moon Festival With Birds.

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Lov Mishra
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Rovio Mobile Ltd. recently released Moon Festival as the latest installment of their worldwide acclaimed game title, Angry Birds Seasons. Gamers will be celebrating Mooncake festival, one of the most important festivals of China, with the angry birds. This latest season features 30 new levels and the dazzling environment of the festival which is filled with birds, green pigs, pagodas, twinkling red lanterns and the moon.  Accompanied with almost 300 million downloads , angry birds have been one of the most popular games available in Mobile Platforms. Angry Birds had already been a blockbuster title on Mobile platforms like iOS, Android etc. and now is available in almost every gaming platform known. This highly addictive game is developed by Rovio Mobile Ltd and is powered by Box2D game engine which delivers mind-boggling comics-type graphics. The Physics performed by the game engine is really impressive and due to which the game delivers beautiful video effects. The world detail is really cool and consists miscellaneous objects. Game has a humorous touch of its own and pigs detailed with various costumes fully serve the purpose. Some of the snapshots of the game are given below.

 

The game features puzzle gameplay in which gamers use slingshot to launch various multi coloured birds for retrieving their eggs stolen by evil pigs. Each bird has its own specific ability or power which helps gamers to complete the difficult levels wisely. The main objective of the game is to destroy all the pigs in the level by launching different birds over them. The level also consists of explosive crates and rocks which can be used to destroy pigs which are tough to reach. Angry Birds Seasons has nonpareil level of addiction and can be downloaded at the following link. The latest installment of the game has the same charm and is rated 4.78 out of 5 which I think is really awesome. So guys celebrate the Moon Festival of China with these Angry Birds and have fun.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnvarSALjTk

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Twitterpalooza! It’s All About Twitter Universe [INFOGRAPHIC]

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Aarzu Khan
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It has been some time when industry has gone viral over the social media evaluation and barged the users with many more insights about gliders like Facebook, Twitter and Groupon. This latest infographic which highlights the couple of interesting facts about Twitter is quite different from many other generic Twitter infographic and facts.

Despite of digging the total number of users, users per second and twitter market share etc, it holds much interesting information like when was the first tweet been sent from international space station by Nasa.

Though couple of figures mentioned here are little old and you may find it contradictory with other infographic at Dazeinfo, but it’s an different effort and a real appreciated approach by alimemon.

Enjoy the infographic after this break;

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Samsung Galaxy ‘Note’ : A Revolutionary Hybrid Device Featuring Both Tablet And Smartphone

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Lov Mishra
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Samsung Electronics Ltd. at IFA 2011 revealed a new revolutionary device featuring awesome smartphone portability with Tablet like viewing experience. Samsung innovated and combined the hardcore features of a smartphone and a huge 5.3” Super AMOLED Tablet-like display into one. An advanced pen-input technology, S-Pen is integrated with the Galaxy Note’s touch screen to give a totally new user-experience. Because of 5.3” WXGA display and a resolution of 1280×800, 285 ppi, users will be able to perform more tasks on the go with minimum scrolling and screen transitions. Its also bundled with Samsung’s latest ChatON mobile communication service.

“The GALAXY Note is a device borne of our insight and innovation. We examined the fundamental elements of mobile culture, entertainment and communication in order to bring together the best experiences in a single, elegant device,” said JK Shin, President and Head of Samsung’s Mobile Communications Business. “The huge, 5.3” HD Super AMOLED screen is the largest, highest quality display available in any phone; the touch screen and S Pen combine to produce a uniquely accurate level of control and finesse, along with rich expressions across the GALAXY Note experience, enabling the introduction of new smartphone experiences.”

“The artistic freedom of a paper notebook is coupled with the benefits of Samsung’s smartphone technology and services, allowing users to create, edit and share with more style than ever before,” Shin added.

Samsung Galaxy Note is powered with 1.4 GHz Dual Core processor which gives it nonpareil performance and ensures blazing fast and smooth user experience. The 5.3” WXGA display and a resolution of 1280×800 gives much more vivid and enhanced viewing experience. Amazingly fast network speeds are enabled through the HSPA＋ and LTE-enabled device’s super-fast connection, ensuring a quick and seamless browsing experience. The Device features rear 8 MP Camera with LED flash and front 2 MP Camera, HD recording upto 1080 p @ 24~30 FPS. The product specification as given by Samsung is given below.

Samsung GALAXY Note Product Specifications

Network

 HSPA＋ 21Mbps  850/900/1900/2100
EDGE/GPRS  850/900/1800/1900

Processor

1.4GHz Dual Core Processor

Display

5.3” WXGA(1280×800, 285ppi) HD Super AMOLED

OS

 Android 2.3(Gingerbread)

Camera

 Main(Rear) : 8 MP with LED Flash
Front : 2 MP
Action Shot, Beauty, Panorama Shot, Smile Shot, Share Shot

Video

Video : MPEG4, H.264, H.263, WMV, DivX, Xvid, VC-1Recording 1080p@24~30fps, Playing 1080p@30fps

Audio

Codec : MP3, AAC, AMR, WMA, WAV, FLAC, OGG
Music Player with SoundAlive
3.5mm Ear Jack, Stereo FM Radio with RDS
Value-added Features

Samsung Apps

Samsung Kies 2.0/ Samsung Kies air

Samsung TouchWiz/ Samsung L!ve PanelUX

Samsung ChatON mobile communication service

 (Downloadable via Samsung Apps)

Smart Note Apps

S Pen / Pen UX

Social Hub
– Integrated Messaging(Email, SNS), Contacts/ Calendar Sync
– Basic: POP3/IMAP Email

Social Hub, Readers Hub , Music Hub

GoogleTM Mobile Services
– GmailTM, Google TalkTM,

Google SearchTM, YouTubeTM, Android Market TM,
– Google MapsTM with Google Places and Google Latitude

 A-GPS

Enterprise Solutions
– ODE, EAS, CCX, MDM, VPN, WebEx

NFC(optional)

Connectivity

Bluetooth® technology v 3.0 ＋ HS
USB 2.0 HOST
WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n, WiFi Direct

Sensor

Accelerometer, Light, Digital compass, Proximity, Barometer

Memory

16/32GB Internal Memory ＋ microSD (up to 32GB)

Size

145.85 × 82.95 × 9.65 mm

Battery

Standard battery, Li-on 2,500 mAh

 

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iPhone 5 Features: A Futuristic Projection [VIDEO]

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Dazeinfo
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As the next version of Apple’s iPhone has reported to début next month, rumors, speculations, images, videos and projections are rounding over the internet in large-scale these days. On the same row, this latest video of iPhone 5 demonstrates various futuristic features which will surely clean the competition for Apple – if ever comes into existence.

Though, it’s tough to believe that Apple will come up with such desirable features with the next version of iPhone – iPhone 5, it will be an appreciated effort by the company to lineup the same in later models.

The super thin handset with features like Laser Keyboard and holographic projections will surely rock the market further. With such functionality Smartphones industry will enter into the a new era of mobile computing, bar will be raised for competitors and end-users will enjoy the supreme power of mobile devices.

I am not sure whether Aatma Studio – an animation studio who has projected the prototype of such features – has become over optimistic by expecting it with the iPhone 5 with no much time to left for release but if Apple ever comes up with similar functionality the credit should go to Aatma Studio – great job done !

Enjoy the video after this break:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzsBwnv_dAg

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5 Minutes Guide To Pocket A Job Offer in Social Media Stream [INFOGRAPHIC]

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Aarzu Khan
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1

With the new ear of social media 2.0, people are becoming more and more fascinated towards the adoption and impersonation of its advantages and gains. Replicating the same, corporate world is also visualizing the social media stream with a complete different view and as a result career portals are flooded with lots of related openings. But wait…..how do you hold your nerve and break the ice to crack such interviews?

Generally, companies prefer to hire well-tuned bloggers, internet addictives or people who have well-connected with online communities for such positions. While internet has covered a mile and it has been a “need-to-have” service for everyone these days, the competition is surging gradually with every passing day.

So, what’s the way to come over such obstacles and challenges and come out with an offer letter for social media related positions; you may find some help from below infographic from mindflash.

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